Pricing & free limits
Every feature for every account. Paid research, AI generation and crawls draw from the balance at quoted prices; projects, settings, saved-data reads, Search Console/GA4 reports and cache hits are free. No per-seat fee. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
Credits are bought through Stripe from $5; a $20 reload adds $20 of usable credit with tax added at checkout. Purchased credits do not expire. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
Promotional balance with no card required, spent at normal quoted prices; eligibility checks can withhold it. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
Billing details
Example usage prices: keyword report (225 rows) $0.15, backlink overview $0.20, 500-page site audit $1.30, local Maps lookup $0.05, two-platform AI visibility run $0.85, Prompt Explorer response up to $0.90, 50 weekly tracked keywords $2.18 a month. Prices vary with scope. Official source 1 ↗
Exact-question AI tracking: 50 short ChatGPT/Gemini checks cost up to $0.50 with queued Standard delivery or $1.00 Live; an AI brand check across ChatGPT and Google is $3.05. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
Each paid action reserves a temporary hold that can exceed the estimate, then settles actual usage; provider-backed actions round up to the next $0.05. When the balance runs out, paid actions stop rather than overdraw. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
Unused purchased balance can be refunded on request; amounts already consumed are non-refundable except for confirmed billing errors. Credits cannot be transferred or cashed out. Official source 1 ↗
Fees charged by your own AI client or model provider are separate; Flex AI Agent's own model work is metered from the FlexQueries balance. Official source 1 ↗
Free access & limits
Eligible verified new accounts get $1.00 of promotional credit once, with no card; after that, all paid research needs purchased credits. Official source 1 ↗
The public free SEO tools are not unlimited: they require sign-in and draw on the same balance. Official source 1 ↗
Saved-data reads, exports, estimates, Search Console and GA4 reports, and eligible cache hits do not use credits. Official source 1 ↗
Best for & limitations
Check whether ChatGPT, Gemini or Google AI answers mention and cite your brand for a set of buying questions, and follow the results over time. Official source 1 ↗
Ask Claude or another MCP client to research keywords around a topic, compare demand and difficulty, and save a tagged shortlist in your project. Official source 1 ↗
Turn a site audit into a prioritized fix list with an AI agent instead of pasting exported rows into a chat. Official source 1 ↗
Pull keyword, competitor and saved project data into an internal app or agency reporting workflow through the REST API. Official source 1 ↗
- AI visibility covers sampled, supported data only. Reports cover the supported surfaces and the questions you save, not every AI conversation or platform; a missing result does not prove a brand never appears. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
- Claude and Perplexity results are API answers, not app results. Only ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overview and AI Mode are collected from search interfaces; Claude and Perplexity entries are model/API answers. Official source 1 ↗
- Sentiment and recommendation labels can be wrong. Optional interpretation produces model-generated labels, not fact checks, and is a controlled-rollout module like cited-page research. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
- Connected agents can spend without dashboard confirmation. Paid MCP calls draw on the shared balance without a dashboard prompt, so per-connection limits and client tool confirmations matter. Official source 1 ↗
- Empty results can still be charged. A successful lookup that finds no matches is billable, and successful checks in a partly failed run keep their charge. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
- No publishing to your site. FlexQueries plans pages and suggests work but does not publish content; you publish through your own CMS. Official source 1 ↗